Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Jeff Broadwater
Associate Professor of History
Barton College
Jeff Broadwater holds a law degree from the University of Arkansas and a Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt.
His publications include George Mason: Forgotten Founder (Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina Press, 2006); Adlai Stevenson and American Politics: The Odyssey of a Cold War Liberal (New York: Twayne, 1994); Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992); and a number of articles and reviews on American politics, foreign policy, and legal history. He recently completed a chapter on James Madison for the Encyclopedia of the Presidency, a multi-volume reference work to be published by Facts on File.
His current research and teaching interests include the American Revolution, the Early Republic, and the South. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for NorthCarolina.org, an online encyclopedia sponsored by the North Carolina History Project.
Scholarship by Jeff Broadwater
Review of Broadwater’s book George Mason: Forgotten Founder
It is tempting to dismiss the Anti-Federalists, for the U.S. Constitution that they opposed is a sacred document to most modern Americans.
George Mason: Forgotten Founder
George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "of the first order of greatness." Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive account of Mason's life at the center of the momentous events of eighteenth-century America.